'Creating value' via animal health

Juan Ramon Alaix shepherds Zoetis Inc's expansion in China, its third-largest market in the world

If you head a company whose business is animal health, might it be useful to have a healthy interest in animals? Zoetis Inc's CEO Juan Ramon Alaix has more than a healthy interest in animals - and in big business opportunities they could create in medicines and vaccines.

He said the world's largest animal health company by revenue foresees massive growth opportunities in China, which it entered in 1995 and where its main customers include livestock producers and veterinarians.